On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:00:47 +0100, Joseph A. Nagy wrote:
> Subject: Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable
Debian 3.0 is no longer unstable ;-)
> I have ARTS, ESD, and Alsa installed. The only program that has sound
> (so far) is XMMS which uses the OSS Sound Driver. Other apps such as
> GAIM and GnomeMeeting have no sound at all.
Sharing the soundcard can be tricky. In general, only one program at a
time is in charge of the sound device. That means one user program like
XMMS or one sound server (ESD or aRts) and its sound clients.
(That's only part of the story -- some soundcards have multiple channels,
and allow more than one program at a time to make sound; also, the modern
ALSA drivers can do software mixing. Google search terms: asoundrc dmix.)
> GAIM is set to use Arts (although it is equally soundless using ESD)
Sound server running?
> and Gnomemeeting is set to use /dev/dsp0 (although it is equally
> soundless with /dev/dsp1).
>
> I just recently upgraded to the latest alsa-base from testing/unstable.
> Any idea's what is going on?
alsa-base does not contain any sound drivers. alsa-base is the init.d
script which loads sound drivers (and a few other technical details). Do
you have an alsa-modules package installed which matches your kernel? (I
assume you're running a 2.4 series kernel. 2.6 has ALSA built in.)
Once you have installed the alsa-modules package, you can run
dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base to select your sound driver.
After that, make sure your user account is member of the audio group. (You
have to re-login for the group changes to take effect.) Now you should at
least get XMMS to work with raw ALSA and OSS.
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